■/:■■:■'■■"-;■■■ By G. H. Iftner 



H. D. Berger, manager for many years of 

 the Farmers Grain Company at Bluffs, Scott 

 county, died Feb. 26 at Our Savior's Hospi- 

 tal in Jacksonville. Cooperative grain mar- 

 keting lost a faithful supporter for Mr. 

 Berger believed in giving Illinois Grain 

 Corporation all of his patronage. Producers 

 around Bluffs hope that the man who suc- 

 ceeds Mr. Berger will honor him by keep- 

 ing the cooperative links unbroken in the 

 chain of grain marketing. 



Henry Birr, former manager of the Cissna 

 Park Cooperative Grain & Coal Company, 

 Iroquois county, recently assumed manager- 

 ship of the Blackstone Farmers' Grain Com- 

 pany, Livingston county. 



Joseph A. Daniels, former diairman of 

 Bond county AAA, will manage the Green- 

 ville Equity Union Exchange, Bond county. 



The Godfrey Elevator Company, Madison 

 county, is combing the area for a manager 

 to relieve pinch-hitting H. B. Koeller, presi- 

 dent, who is anxious to get back to his 

 farm work. 



The Alhambra Grain and Feed Company, 



Madison county, will be the first farmers' 

 elevator in Illinois to operate a soybean 

 processing plant. It has the priorities and 

 the equipment is in order. Manager E. S. 

 Apple has worked on the project for more 

 than a year. 



Twenty-one Illinois Farmers' Elevators 



celebrated their 25th anniversary during 1943 

 at Alhambra, Atwood, Bentley, Boody, Elm- 

 wood, Elwin, Foosland, Grand Ridge, Guth- 

 rie, Hammond, LgPlace, Maquon, Nokomis, 

 Patoka, Paxton, Pierson, Piper City, Ran- 

 dolph, Seymour, Staley and Woodson. Not 

 all of the above are truly cooperative or- 

 ganizations. However, a majority of the 

 stockholders are farmers. Sixteen other 

 farmers' companies organized during 1918 

 are no longer in existence. These elevators 

 were located at Aledo, Atwater, Bongard, 

 Brockton, Dundee, Fidelity, Heyworth, 

 Huntley, Kankakee, Metcalf, Midway, Rump- 

 ler, Sharpsburg, Sciota, Thawville and Wel- 



The director of a southern farmers' eleva- 

 tor attended a district lAA marketing con- 

 ference. He returned home and went into 

 action. His elevator is changing from an 

 old line type to a true cooperative type of 

 organization. In the future, the patrons will 

 get their share of earnings on a patronage 

 basis. 



Illinois Grain Cor^ration employees like 

 to remember Dec. 31, 1943 as the day when 

 farmers' elevators in Iowa booked 150 cars 

 with them. Tiiat set a record for Illinois 

 elevators to shoot at. In what year will 

 they tie or exceed Iowa's record .■* An elec- 

 tric clock to the person who guesses the 

 month and the year. 



Illinois grain producers can help celebrate 



the 100th anniversary of the founding of the 

 cooperative movement (Rochdale Society in 

 England) by patronizing their local farmers' 

 elevators. Farmers' elevators can celebrate 

 the centennial by voting to become true co- 

 operatives and showing appreciation to pa- 

 trons via the patronage refund route. 



ing skimmilk. This dryer will have a capac- 

 ity of 400 to 500 pounds of powdered skim- 

 milk per hour. 



"I would not mind my elevator becoming 



a true co-op if I did not have to keep those 

 records," a manager said recently. That is 

 not the way Roy Phillips at Nokomis sees 

 it. "Those records are worth keeping," said 

 Phillips, "and we can afford to hire a girl 

 to keep them. See this ledger.-' — a com- 

 plete record for every one of my patrons." 

 Phillips has managed the Nokomis Equity 

 Elevator to an enviable position by giving 

 unequalled service and by creating oppor- 

 tunities for service. 



Herbert A. Graham, honorably discharged 

 from the Army, has been hired to work in the 

 St. Louis office of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion. He was inducted 

 into the Army June 7, 

 1941, and served in the 

 Army Engineer Corps. 

 In March, 1942, he 

 was in Belfast, North 

 Ireland, and after serv- 

 ice in the British Isles, 

 landed at Oran, Nov. 8, 

 1942 and saw service 

 in some of the Tunisian 

 campaign. He was 

 hospitalized and re- 

 turned to the United 

 States on account of 

 disability and honorably discharged Oct. 3, 

 1943. 



A patronage dividend of $19,600 was ap- 

 proved at the 40th annual meeting of the 

 Savoy Grain and Coal Company. This 

 equals $1 an acre for the acreage repre- 

 sented by the co-op membership. The co-op 

 handled 626,805 bushels of grain for the 

 year and merchandise business amounted to 

 $98,196. L. G. Johnston was re-elected 

 president and Edwin Smalley was re-elected 

 to the board. Holdover directors are A. E. 

 Burwash, Henry Grein, Walter Fisher, Clark 

 Wise and F. W. Jordan. 



cream 



By Frank Gougler 



Director D. L. Garber of. PRODUCERS' 

 CREAMERY of MT. CARROLL reports that 

 his board has decided on the size and kind 

 of new creamery to construct. It will be a 

 brick-tile, one story structure, 35 x 105 

 feet. It will be built along the side of the 

 present building and present operations will 

 not be disrupted during construction. After 

 the new plant is ready for operation, whole 

 milk will be received and processed in it, 

 while cream will continue to be received 

 and processed in the old building. New 

 equipment for the new building will con- 

 sist of a boiler and stoker, a can washer, 

 a plate cooler, receiving equipment, hold- 

 ing trucks and a large roller dryer for dry- 



}ohn Sterchi, president of PRODUCERS' 

 CREAMERY of OLNEY, reports that the 

 stock selling campaign has practically been 

 completed. Their expansion program con- 

 templates the building of an addition to 

 the plant 40 x 80 feet to provide additional 

 storage space and serve as a garage for 

 creamery-owned trucks. Manager Frank 

 MIeynek states that additional space is 

 needed in the milk department to handle 

 the increased volume of milk. This will 

 be provided through the enlargement of 

 the present milk department by rearrang- 

 ing partitions and converting excess office 

 space to the milk department. New equip- 

 ment to be added consists of a new air-tight 

 cream separator of 7000 pounds per hour 

 capacity, 150 H. P. boiler and stoker, heat 

 reclaimer system, can washer, receiving room 

 equipment, milk storage tanks, and a 400 

 pound per hour roller dryer. This additional 

 equipment will cost approximately $25,000. 



In February, Manager Robert Erickson put 



out his first issue of "Producers News," a 

 monthly publication which goes to patrons 

 of the creamery. According to Manager 

 Erickson the volume of butter manufactured 

 at present well exceeds that of last year. 

 Recently 11 new cream patrons and 25 new 

 milk patrons have been secured. According 

 to the "News", one of the best investments 

 the board has made recently has been the 

 renting of a garage. The creamery operates 

 a fleet of 12 trucks which are stored and 

 serviced in the garage. A mechanic is 'em- 

 ployed on a full-time basis and works from 

 noon until 11:00 p.m. In this manner, 

 when trucks start out in the morning, they 

 are in tip-top shape and by being stored in 

 a heated garage through the winter, they 

 are not subject to mistreatment experienced 

 by trucks that have to remain out in the 

 cold. 



Old-timer "Doc" Harland, who started as 



manager of the cooperative cream station 

 in McDonough county years ago and has 

 been a cream salesman for Producers' Cream- 

 ery of Mt. Sterling since it began opera- 

 tions in 1936, has been confined to his home 

 for two months due to an attack of pneu- 

 monia. Other drivers are taking care of 

 his routes during his illness. 



During January and February of this year, 

 reports Manager Gourley, the PRODUCERS 

 CREAMERY of CARLINVILLE handled 

 more milk and cream than during the flush 

 months of May and June last year. Be- 

 cause of this increased volume, it has been 

 necessary to purchase a new 300 gallon 

 stainless steel pasteurizing vat, a stainless 

 steel pre-heater and a larger stoker for the 

 boiler. During January, 24 new patrons 

 were secured and 35% more patrons were 

 served than during January of last year. 



PRODUCERS CREAMERY OF PEORIA 



is moving ahead with its plans for the 

 building of a plant at Henry and at Havana. 

 Stock is being sold to finance the project 

 and sites are being considered. The Henry 

 plant will serve Marshall-Putnam, Stark, Bu- 

 reau, Woodford counties. La Salle may 

 be included, depending on the action taken 

 by producers of that area. The Havana 

 plant will serve Mason, Menard, Cass, Ful- 

 ton and Tazewell counties. Both plants 

 will afford diversified outlets for producers' 

 output as they will be equipped with roller 

 dryers for the making of skim milk powder. 



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